Distributed decision support systems under limited degrees of competence: A simulation study

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-34

  Dragoni, Aldo Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Belief revision; Distributed artificial intelligence; Distributed cognition; Distributed decision making

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BELIEF REVISION; DISTRIBUTED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031140730     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(96)00073-5     Document Type: Article

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